Anne-Marie Slaughter Quotes

The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.

To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else.

I don't really think in career terms.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

The thing about this business is you have to take the work while you can.

I am not super-attached to my career.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood the paradox until I had a child. I bring my son to work and let other parents do the same. I am very intentional about the workplace that I create, and my son is a big part of that.

I'm a company man. I'll go wherever the UFC wants me to go.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.

I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.